Appalachian Spring Break, with choreography by Scotty Heron and music by Brendan Connelly. Photo by Gil Birman, courtesy of Bryant Lake Bowl.

Fuck Your Honeymoon

by phillip low

phillip andrew bennett low has been neck-deep in the Fringe Festival for more than a decade—making and performing in shows every year, reviewing them for a variety of media outlets when he's not on stage himself. But his honeymoon with Lady Fringe is over. What now?

...and as the curtain speech concludes, the lights dim, and I hear a voice to my right mumble “That’s new.”…

Lightsey Darst and curator Sarah Schultz on work vs. jobs (and what lies between), the vagaries of chance, and balancing a sense of agency with acceptance in dealing with both.

Sarah Schultz is an independent curator and formerly Curator of Public Practice and Director of Education at the Walker Art Center. She lives in New York City and Minneapolis.Choose one: prairie, coast, mountain, hillside, sea.…

The demographics and economic realities of rural America are shifting. The dividing lines between country and city spheres are increasingly fluid. Art of the Rural founder, Matthew Fluharty, makes a case for rejecting calcified notions of “rural art” and redrawing a geography of the cultural center (and periphery) accordingly.

It is significant that the common image of the country is now an image of the past, and the common image of the city an image of the future. That leaves, if we isolate them, an undefined present.…

Anna Marie Shogren unpacks the ideal of “evening-length” dance, the quirks of audience attention and institutional prestige, and what it means to make fully realized work.

We humans are fascinated by time. It is a cause for much wonder and preoccupation. We attempt to gauge it, worry we’ve lost it, watch it go by. The artist who works in time tries to balance audience engagement through energetic features and rhythm, in an att…